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Roman Storm is a software developer and co-founder of Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency mixing protocol. Prosecuted by U.S. authorities over the tool's use in money laundering, he was convicted in August 2025 on a conspiracy charge and has become a prominent voice in debates over developer liability for code used by others.
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Prosecutors say the ruling upholding Bitcoin Fog's founder makes one Tornado Cash user's Manhattan transactions enough to try Roman Storm in New York. If Judge Katherine Polk Failla agrees, a mixer developer could be tried wherever one user deposits into the pool.
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FinCEN withdrew its proposal to make about 15,000 institutions report foreign crypto mixer transactions, work it estimated at 1.47 million hours a year. Banks keep their general duty to report suspicious activity, so mixer exposure stays a monitoring job without its own form.
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Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money as a private DAI wallet that caps every transfer at $2,500 and all users' deposits combined at $50,000 a day. Raising either limit means a new contract that each user must opt into. The caps arrive while US law on privacy wallets remains unsettled.
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The judge moved the second trial to April 26, 2027, on the defense's own request. The count that would actually settle non-custodial developer liability is still waiting on sentencing.
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Roman Storm says the theory that convicted him would also reach Google and OpenAI. It is a post, not a brief, and the count he was convicted on is the one his analogy fits worst.
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